Posts Tagged ‘sepulchre’

Inhale, Sepulchre and Exhale make up The Charnel House Trilogy [official site]. It’s a point and click project devised by developers Owl Cave which follows two passengers as they take a train journey to a remote location.

Sepulchre was initially released a couple of years back and I was fond of it as a standalone piece. It’s a vignette which taps into older horror story tropes – the ones which involve creepiness and that very Victorian morbid fascination with the tomb – rather than body horror or torture porn. Now bookended and recontextualised by Inhale and Exhale I’m struggling to find that former fondness.

Remember Sepulchre and how you all played it based on my Have You Played…? recommendation? Well apparently it’s now part of a trilogy – The Charnel House Trilogy, to be precise.

Owl Cave’s creepy horror short will thus be getting a prequel and a sequel called Inhale and exhale respectively. It’s basically a Sepulchre sandwich except calling it that would have been less in keeping with the entombment theme than Charnel House. God, I’m really hungry.